Visualizing Loss in Latin America - Biopolitics, Waste, and the Urban Environment (1st ed. 2023)

Visualizing Loss in Latin America engages with a varied corpus of textual, visual, and cultural material with specific intersections with the natural world, arguing that Latin American literary and cultural production goes beyond ecocriticism as a theoretical framework of analysis. Gisela Heffes poses the following crucial question: How do we construct a conceptual theoretical apparatus to address issues of value, meaning, tradition, perspective, and language, that contributes substantially to environmental thinking, and that is part and parcel of Latin America? The book draws attention to ecological inequality and establishes a biopolitical, ethics-based reading of Latin American art, film, and literature that operates at the intersection of the built environment and urban settings. Heffes suggest that the aesthetic praxis that emerges in/from Latin America is permeated with a rhetoric of waste—a significant trait that overwhelmingly defines it.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
Release date:	June 2023
Authors:	Gisela Heffes
Translators:	Grady C Wray
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Pages:	274
Edition:	1st ed. 2023
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-128830-2
Subtitles:	Spanish
Categories:	Books
LSN:	3-03-128830-0
Barcode:	9783031288302

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